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Rock of ages

Rock of ages

I know the idea of building for posterity is probably on the back burner seeing as we’ll all probably be up to our eyeballs in water by the time we hit 2050 and our net zero greenhouse gas commitments, but if ‘eternity’ is on your client’s design tick list you might consider Fiandre Architectural Surfaces’ lovely Alpi Chiaro Venato marble from Italy’s Aosta Valley in the western Alps. Intensely green and illuminated with white veins, its available as part of its Maximum porcelain tiling collection. It’s made of 40% recycled content and apparently got LEED certification – so your two fifths of the way to zero. 

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Exploitation of this traditional and plentiful material is opening opportunities in the region, ticking all the environmental and heritage boxes while scoring highly on aesthetics too

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Shocking reports from the RIBA and ARB revealing dangerously low wellbeing among architects prompt RIBA president Muyiwa Oki to insist we make a just and supportive workplace more than a platitude

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Continuing our mini-series, Wayne Head is enthralled by this account of Detroit's underground music scene, which thrived in the buildings left empty by the city's decline

Wayne Head is enthralled by this account of how Detroit's underground music scene benefited from the city's industrial decline

Create a centre of conservation excellence in Norfolk, design an artistic trail through an Oxfordshire housing development, work on the regeneration of a County Durham harbourside - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

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